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Who want to be Lara Croft when you can be Maggie.
Date of Review: Jan 6, 2001
The Bottom Line: If you total dislike watching subtitled movie then go for it. Nikita is better in many ways. Either way it is the same movie but in different language.
The talented Bridget Fonda plays the title role. The plot involves a secret agency recruiting condemned petty criminals and trains them to be unquestioning assassin. The twist is the good guy or girl in this case is the killer. The baddy is the mysterious agency as they manipulate their recruits to carry out their commission to kill on demand. As the girl initially corporate to survive she is tortured by her conscience and feel trap in her despairing life. Ms Fonda acting is spot on as the alluring femme fatale. She portrays the transformation from a street urchin to a gorgeous lady with the ease. A killer has never been so chic and beautiful. She is totally desperate as she was put in situation where she need to fight for dear life and fragile as the small girl unable to break free from her grim life. The other aspect of this movie like music and locations are also just as delightful.
This movie is wonderful to watch but I cannot help but feel uneasy. Perhaps someone can help me out here. Remake or plagiarize the line is very thin. I have seen how some writers here in this forum seem to have a very clear idea about this and very vocal in about their dislike for plagiarism. They even ?punish? epinioner with bad rating if they think an unforgivable act of plagiarism has been violated.
This movie seems to have been made with the identical script for an earlier movie called La Femme Nikita. The direction even seems to copy the style of Luc Besson down to almost every detail. This appears to be a copycat production but make no reference or acknowledgment to the source. There are numerous productions of a Shakespeare?s plays like Hamlet, which probably have been redone ever since it was first shown to the public. However, the different is no production is so similar that some observer seems to be compelled to shout foul play. I wonder how we should resolve this when it comes to the medium of movie. I am sorry if anyone thinks I have deviated from the point of this heading. I will resubmit this essay in another heading if you can suggest a better one.
